File photo Elkins and Tygarts Valley are facing elimination in their respective regional tournaments. The Lady Tigers will host Bridgeport on Friday in Class AAA, Region II play and the Lady Bulldogs are slated to visit East Hardy this evening in Class A, Region II action.

ELKINS — Elkins, Buckhannon-Upshur and Tygarts Valley will all need wins this week to stay alive in regional action which was pushed back on Wednesday due to the weather.

The fourth-seeded Lady Tigers (12-15) face fifth-seed Bridgeport at 5 p.m. Friday in a Class AAA, Region II elimination game.

Elkins, which defeated the Lady Indians in its regional opener on Monday, dropped a 15-0 verdict at top-seed Keyser on Tuesday night.

Sixth-seed Hampshire visits No. 2 Lewis County in another elimination game scheduled for today.

Keyser and third-seed Robert C. Byrd are currently unblemished in the regional tourney.

The Elkins-Bridgeport winner will travel to Keyser, needing two wins to advance to the state tournament.

The Hampshire-Lewis County victor faces the same scenario against RCB in the other half of the regional bracket.

The sixth-seeded Lady Bucs, meanwhile, will now host seventh-seed Parkersburg this evening in a Class AAAA, South Region elimination tilt after Wednesday’s game was postponed.

B-U, which set a school-record for wins this spring — going 23-9 — looks to bounce back from Tuesday’s 9-0 setback at No. 3 Parkersburg South.

In their lone regular-season meeting with Parkersburg, the Lady Bucs claimed a 16-2 home victory back on April 18.

The victor of today’s contest will host No. 10 Woodrow Wilson in another elimination contest.

Second-seed George Washington was slated to host Parkersburg South on Wednesday in a winner’s bracket game.

Four teams from the region advance to the state tournament.

In Class A, Region II action, third-seed Tygarts Valley ventures to second-seed East Hardy this evening in a rematch from earlier this week.

The Lady Cougars claimed a 5-4 victory in the first game of the best-of-three series on Monday, forcing the Lady Bulldogs to win the next two to earn a trip to the state tournament.

In the other half of the bracket, defending state champion and top-seed Pendleton County is in the driver’s seat after blanking fourth-seed Tucker County, 15-0, on Tuesday.

The Lady Mountain Lions will now host fifth-seed Pocahontas County in a rematch, with the winner needing to defeat the Lady Wildcats twice to advance to states.

The double-elimination state tournament, which now includes eight teams in each class, will be held May 27-June 4 at South Charleston’s Little Creek Park.

Class AA and A will be held May 27-29 and Class AAA and AAAA June 2-4.